Accolades abound at Milford on Sea’s Shorefield Country Park – this luxury family park near the beaches and New Forest of Hampshire is multi-award winning, with prizes for its conservation and spotless facilities among others. Well, you don’t get to welcome guests for half a century (and have almost half of business coming from repeat customers) without doing something very right, shorely?

The placid park at Shorefield covers 100 acres of landscaped parkland and is set up so you don’t have to lift a finger after you arrive: there’s a kids’ club, an extensively stocked supermarket and the Reflections day spa, with seven treatment rooms for top to toe pampering – for the guys too. Or just sit back and de-stress in the sauna or steam bath, or tread the mills at the fully-equipped gym on site before jumping into the indoor pool to cool down…

Once enough steam is let off, the Cheers bar serves breakfast, lunch and dinner alongside a Sunday carvery with locally-sourced Hampshire meat; there are four big screens too for sports fans. Bubbly evening entertainment and regular special events are in the Champagne Suite, and guests who want a bit of grown-up time can carve out a space in the adults-only Country Pumpkin (opening times vary during peak and off-peak times).

Outdoors, canny anglers can use the park’s fishing lake (don’t forget your rod license) or splash about in the outdoor pool, which has the Shorefield nature centre next to it with displays on the wildlife in and around the park; there's even a display on the Shorefield bees, with a hive and a honey extractor.

If you can entice little piggies away from the Shorefield kids’ club and pool, Peppa Pig World is in the nearby New Forest for a porky-themed trip; for bigger piglets, there’s squeaking at the thrill rides and other attractions in the main Paultons Park or taking Tarzan-like to the trees at one of the three Go Ape! centres in Hampshire, near Ringwood, Southampton and Farnham.

The New Forest lies just north of Shorefield: take your pick from gardens, museums, farm parks and wildlife centres to visit, or hack/hike along the many horse-riding and walking trails. There are heathland and woodland cycle routes to spot some of the New Forest’s 3000 ponies – bring your own bike or hire one there. If you’re more of a four-wheeler, the Beaulieu National Motor Museum is in the heart of the New Forest; entrance to the museum includes admission to the sixteenth century Palace House and Beaulieu Abbey.

Going west, there’s the coastal cluster of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole for historic harbours, bright lights and sandy beaches, and the seaside towns of Swanage and Weymouth; sally forth in the other direction to Southampton for the longest medieval wall in England and Southampton Maritime Museum.

The seaside resort of Lymington is on the southern edge of the New Forest for more maritime adventure at its two marinas and open-air sea bath built in the nineteenth century, while Portsmouth is a must to go adrift at the Historic Dockyard and the giant walk-through tunnel of the Blue Reef Aquarium.

For more nature, ornithologists of all ages can look hawk-eyed at the birds of prey (and reptiles) at Ringwood’s Liberty’s Owl and Raptor Centre or potter along the walk-through exhibit Penguin Beach at Fanham’s Birdworld with its colony of African penguins, aquarium and farm.

Busy rambling 17th-c pub looking over boatyard and sea to Isle of Wight, low-beamed bar with nautical bric-a-brac and plenty of character (less in family rooms and conservatory), good reasonably priced local food including crab, Ringwood, Sharps, Timothy Taylors and Wells & Youngs tapped from the cask, Weston's cider, lots of malt whiskies, helpful young staff, bar billiards; background music; tables out in front and in big back garden with swings and fish pond, you can stroll down to small harbour and walk to Hurst Castle, open all day Sat, closed Sun evening

Bright, airy and comfortable New Forest family dining pub, popular generously served food, ales such as Itchen Valley, Ringwood, St Austell and Timothy Taylors, good helpful service even at busy times, low beams and central log fire; background music; dogs welcome, picnic-sets and play frame in neatly kept garden, open all day

In steep cobbled lane of smart small shops, friendly dimly lit old local with Fullers London Pride, Ringwood, Timothy Taylors Landlord and a couple of guests, several wines by the glass, enjoyable home-made food including specials, pleasant helpful staff, nicely mixed old-fashioned furnishings in rambling beamed and bare-boarded rooms (some recent refurbishment), log fire and woodburner, good classic yacht photographs, daily papers; background music, can get very busy; children and dogs welcome, nice little sunny courtyard behind, open all day

Liked: we went to this site with teenagers we all loved it,it has to be the best british holiday we have had. I liked the fact early in the morning the pool facilities were for adults only so it gives you a chance to have a swim before your day starts

Disliked: THERE WAS NO LIGHTING LEADING TO THE ACCOMADATION AND ITS A REALLY DARK ROAD

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The number of persons permitted to stay in static units must not exceed that for which they are designed. Maximum occupancy is 6 persons (not including infants under two).

Your accommodation is available from 4pm on the day of arrival, with departure by 10am.

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